Many planetary systems are born in slightly tilted protoplanetary disks, which would explain the misaligned orbits from the ...

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds of dust ...

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI, ...

Long had the scientific community searched space for signs of a newly formed planet, and it has now captured one.

Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA's search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the ...

It’s an unprecedented snapshot of “time zero,” scientists reported Wednesday, when new worlds begin to gel. “We’ve captured a direct glimpse of the hot region where rocky planets like Earth are born ...

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous ...